I'm just going to admit it. I'm not a fan of yard work. Given the choice I'd rather go on a run, spend time with family or do pretty much anything than cut grass, pull weeds or maintain the outside of my home. However a couple of years ago in a sideways effort to reduce the amount of lawn we had I added three vegetable garden boxes to our yard. We've always had some fruit bushes which I like, but vegetables appealed to me for reasons that should be obvious. They are a big percentage of my diet.

We've refined what we grow after learning what tends to be successful in our yard and also what we like to eat. This year it was romaine lettuce, kale, spinach (which failed), beets, cucumber, carrots, red/yellow peppers, baby tomatoes, field tomatoes and kohlrabi. Kohlrabi is a nostalgic veggie I recall from my parents home growing up on the prairies. It's one of those weird ones that if you buy in the grocery store the teller often asks you what it is as they look it up in their book. I mainly eat it raw, sliced or I'll dice it up and put it in a salad. It has a taste somewhat of a mild radish. Click on the video below to see more.